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#3D digitizer utility
Message #176799
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a PC utility that can translate dataclouds created by a 3D digitizer into a form usable by 3D Studio. I have acess to Poleumus digitizng arm at work, and would like to create wireframes from real objects. Thanks in advance,…
Hi Milton, Thanks for the detailed info on Cybermesh. I first "discovered" it on the back page of New Media magazine. The little "game" section mentioned the software, who wrote it (John Knoll of Photoshop fame), what it did (which got me very interested) and made no mention of how…
Hi Randy, I'm interested in this 3DExpres program you've mentioned. It sounds alot like Cybermesh for the Mac. Cybermesh works by scanning a grayscale image and mapping a 3D wireframe based on the value of gray in the pixel. Lighter gray maps higher/darker gray maps deeper. A similar feature in…
>>instaed it is very jagged and every band of gray is visible as a definite step
>>You'll have to get a polygon out of it somehow
>>looks like a fetal memory error
>>why not duplicate your line
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#extrude curved line
Message #11128
>>Can you give me a better description of what you're trying to do?
Hi Jon,, Thanks for the imput. I suspect that I was responding to an optical illusion. (See my reply to Ian.) I do not believe that the position of the object above or above/behind the object will make much of a difference. But I'll take a look and see if…
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#reflections are wrong
Message #11126
I've had a little time to view your bmp. and scn.. Thanks for taking the efforts to explain yourself clearly. Since I've been mostly away from the computer, I have been studying the question out here in the real not_so_virtual_world with mixed results. I have seen results that still give…